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What are Today's Best New Retail Developments? | Hard Hat Chat

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Observations and Conversations about Commercial Construction, Development and Management. What are Today’s Best New Retail Developments? I get asked a lot about commercial construction trends. Recently someone asked me: “What is the best retail center to build today?”. Restaurant. Shopping Center. Hospitality.

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Commercial Construction Checklist on Beating the Next Chicago Blizzard

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Englewood Construction is an expert in winter condition commercial construction practices. While most businesses, including commercial construction projects, were closed on Wednesday, Feb. After all, shopping center landlords, restaurants and retailers couldn’t afford to be closed two days in a row. Same with brick and mortar.

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Lessons from BP: The Ultimate Checklist for Commercial Construction Preventive Maintenance

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Commercial construction preventive maintenance. Granted the explosion and resulting oil spill is a worst case scenario, but it begs the question: Do you have the appropriate commercial construction preventive maintenance checklist in place? You can reach me at bill.disanto@englewoodconstruction.com. requires a bird.

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Commercial Construction Lessons Learned from the Sephora Fire at The Shops at North Bridge

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As a national retail construction contractor, Englewood Construction has completed a number of retail construction projects in that mall. Or more importantly, do developers and owners have a construction safety plan at the ready or know what to do in case a disaster strikes? I had to hold my breath. Was anyone hurt?

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Best and Worst of 2010: Commercial Construction Trends

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I’ll say it again, 2010 was a rebuilding year for the commercial construction industry. So I’ve created a commercial construction checklist for what we considered the highs and lows of 2010 commercial construction trends. It wasn’t as bad as 2009, but not as good as 2008. High – Institutional Construction. High – Franchises.